Green holiday gifts at your fingertips – locally grown, 0% plastic
By Emma Gray
This holiday season your gifts can give more as they grow. And you don’t even have to drive to a store to buy them. For a tax-deductible donation of only $35, Friends of Trees will plant a young native tree in your gift recipient’s name and send a beautiful, personalized acknowledgment card. A donation of $100 will purchase a Gift Grove of six young native trees.
When you order your Gift Tree, Friends of Trees will print your name and the name of the person being honored on a gift acknowledgment card, and mail your card within 48 hours of the first business day after you place your order. All orders placed by December 17, 2010 will be sent out in time for Christmas.
When you buy Gift Trees you also buy the experience of planting the trees yourself. Every year Friends of Trees hosts two invitation-only Gift Tree planting events. All who purchase or receive Gift Trees have the option to attend with their families. Nothing beats the feeling of goodwill, togetherness and accomplishment that comes with the simple act of planting a tree with people you care about. Of course, all Gift Trees are planted regardless of whether purchasers or recipients can attend the Gift Tree planting.
Buying Gift Trees leaves a living legacy both for the people who receive your gift and for the Portland metro area. Gift Trees help restore the Collins Sanctuary, part of our urban forest and a legacy from the Collins Family Foundation to Portland area residents. Restoration of the sanctuary is underway through a partnership between Metro, Audubon Society of Portland, and Friends of Trees.
Gift Tree plantings have already resulted in 745 native trees and plants restoring the newly ivy-free slopes of the Collins Sanctuary. Even more exciting is that these plantings will take place at least through the year 2016, resulting in the planting of thousands of trees.
To learn more or to order Gift Trees, visit FriendsofTrees.org/GiftTrees or call Emma at 503-282-8846 ext. 31.
-Gray is Gift Tree and Membership Services Specialist for Friends of Trees